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Hi Davis, I'd have to agree with benny2. One year I bought four 4-1/2" angle grinders when the Cummins roadshow came through. Two were $10 each, and two were supposedly superior units---all steel gears, needle bearings, etc.---at $20 ea. The cheaper ones, although gutless, held up okay but the better ones weren't better. Bad switches, burned up brushes right away, things like that. Even if they had still been under warranty when I couldn't fix them anymore I don't know how cost effective it would be to go to the time and expense of mailing a tool to a service center. I probably wouldn't deal with Harbor Freight through the mail for the same reason. But there's a H/F retail store a short drive from where I live and I've learned enough to know that I have to use a H/F product hard as soon as I get it to find out if it's any good. I once took back 9" angle grinders one after another (always when I had business on that side of town) until the H/F manager suggested that I might be happier with a Milwaukee---which they didn't sell. I'm a believer in H/F auto-darkening welding helmets, though. I wear out about one a year, but at $50 or less each, I figure that I can go through 5 or 6 for the price of a Speedglas or Optrel, or similar. A high quality helmet ought to last longer than that, but it won't if it gets stolen or destroyed. Those things happen too. All the best, Stan
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